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May 18, 2018

How connecting neuroscience, storytelling, and psychology can create measurable impact for refugee youth

Today, science shows us how stress and trauma impact our physical bodies and even genetics.

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Dec 18, 2017

Integrating storytelling as a tool for healing and community building

It started like this: a small, white video camera; two Syrian youth facilitators; and twenty-five Syrian youth in the Zaatari refugee camp in 2014. Now, three years later, #MeWeSyria is a team of more than 50…

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Nov 6, 2017

Refugees are not the crisis. It’s the narratives we tell about them.

Don’t start with a boat. Don’t show it lurching on the waves, a crush of terrified people packed elbow to ribcage, a baby crying. Don’t focus on their past: the homes they left, the loved ones lost, the bribes…

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May 19, 2017

A poem about refugees you need to read

In the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, a wave of anti-refugee sentiment crossed the Atlantic, with over half of U.S. governors declaring that they would bar Syrian refugees from settling in their states. Poet Jason Defo Fotso, then eighteen years old…

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Apr 4, 2016

Defying gravity: supporting Syria’s youth by disrupting systems of education and development

We sat on a bench under the sun conversing amidst sounds of young boys playing soccer and kids running to their next classes.

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Jun 26, 2015

7 videos guaranteed to change the way you see refugees

Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard the phrase “Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.” It was one of the most common expressions my parents used when I was growing up as they tried to get me to look at a situation from a different…